We reported awhile back that David Fincher, fresh off the large-scaled Oscar bait “The Curious Case of Benjamin Button” was attempting to transition into an adaptation of the cult-classic maganize,”Heavy Metal.” He had named possible directors for the vignettes as Zack Synder, Gore Verbinski, himself and others to be named later. But while chatting with MTV.com’s Splash page Fincher expressed his energetic ambition towards the project but also let it be known that the project is still in the developmental phase and has yet to find financing.
Fincher responded to a question concerning the status of the project by giving an ambiguous/negative answer,”We’re still trying to get that made.” But despite the numerous doubts surrounding the project, he didn’t hesitate to reveal his plan, “I’m ready to bat clean-up. I’m ready to do whatever story no one else wants to do. We have like twenty-four stories and artwork for it. Zack Snyder is picking one and I think Verbinski has one that he likes. We’re seeing where it ends up. I have time to do one or two and I have dibs on eight or nine, so somewhere in there we’ll figure it out if we can ever get the money together.”
The phrase “if we can ever get the money together” doesn’t exactly inspire confidence that the film will ever get off the ground, but Fincher believes that the obscure, adult-themed magazine is in integral part of modern animation. “There’s no ‘Blade Runner’ without ‘Heavy Metal.’ There’s probably no ‘Alien.’ It was such a fertile breeding ground.” Fincher is also confident that someday in the near future audiences will get over child-themed animated films and for be ready for sex-filled, edgy digitally animated films, “The world will at some point be ready for something other than singing, furry f–king animals.”